Danielle Tumminio

As I stood in front of the new Mormon Temple in Liberty, Mo., it struck me as ironic that close to 175 years ago, Mormons were forced out of this same state.

Whereas the Missouri public once urged their governor to force Joseph Smith and his followers out...

Even though Rush Limbaugh apologized to Sandra Fluke, the birth control controversy isn't over. While the Obama administration continues negotiations with Catholic bishops, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a law to exempt employers from providing contraception on religious grounds to their employees.

Supporters of this bill -- or...

Imagine this: You and your spouse are expecting your first child. You feel the baby kick. You paint a nursery and pick out a crib that converts to a big kid's bed. In the mornings, you worry about building up a college fund and in the evenings, you dream that...

This January marks the 10th anniversary of the clergy sex abuse scandal that rocked the foundations of the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian denominations. What began as a series of news reports in the Boston Globe about six Roman Catholic priests and the cover-up arranged by Cardinal Law led...

Pitch rises at Christmas.

Stores hire seasonal workers to open earlier, close later; mail carriers rush to deliver presents wrapped for nieces and nephews by exhausted aunts and uncles who feel guilty they don't live closer, can't deliver the gifts in person; church musicians and clergy work extended hours,...

With shoppers lining up for Black Friday earlier and earlier in recent years, the more appropriate name for retailers' biggest sales day might be Black Is The Color Of The Sky You Will Stand Outside Under In The Middle Of The Night.

But not everyone enjoys the earlier shopping opportunities....

As London Occupy protesters prepare for winter outside St. Paul's Cathedral, they hearken to a past call to help another marginalised group: Pigeons.

Back in 1964, Walt Disney's Mary Poppins included a somber, hymn-like tune called "Feed the Birds," which depicted an elderly woman selling breadcrumbs to passersby, who in...

I read on my smartphone that another government shutdown was imminent as a man with a mop traced Goofy onto the pavement he cleaned.

President Obama chastised Congress to pass his Jobs Bill as a woman wearing a Mickey Mouse mitt waved at my husband and I as she...

If older generations paint morality in black and white, young people's palettes are disappointingly grey.

At least that's how David Brooks explains it in a recent New York Times editorial about the morality of emerging adults. Brooks discusses a new book entitled "Lost in Transition" and uses data...

I sat in a train car on Sept. 13, 2001, watching smoke rise from fallen towers. A Connecticut policeman observed the pyre beside me with a blank expression as he traveled to serve beside the exhausted NYPD. He did not complain about working overtime. He didn't express concern about leaving...

It seemed like God was frowning down at me a few weeks ago. It began when doctors performed emergency surgery on a dear friend to remove all of her reproductive organs ... only to then tell her that she had cancer.

Now, this friend and I have a somewhat unique...

Warren Jeffs' trial was nothing if not disturbing: First, Jeffs dismissed his lawyers. Then jurors listened to a religious tirade that masked as an opening statement.

And that's before the trial really got going.

This past week, those in the courtroom heard a recording of Jeffs instructing girls to...

Whenever there's gnashing of teeth in the Bible, a theological danger zone is sure to follow, complete with blinking lights and signs to slow down, have caution.

After all, there is nothing more troublesome to theologians and people of faith than the problem of evil, which...

In an attic apartment during my last year of graduate school at Yale, I ate pizza with two friends and crafted a syllabus for the Harry Potter and Christian Theology course. My plan: de-emphasize witchcraft -- which previously dominated Christian perspectives on the series -- and focus on a variety...